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单词 to have the odds of
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to have the odds of
c. Superior position, advantage; esp. in to take odds of: to take advantage of. Similarly to have the odds of (a person). Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > give opportunity for [verb (transitive)] > take (opportunity)
catchc1425
to take‥vantage (of)1573
apprehend1586
to take odds of1596
to catch at ——1610
feea1616
seize1618
nick1634
to jump at1769
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another
privilegec1390
advantagec1405
vantage1523
overmatch1542
odds1596
pull1781
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa5 Vnarm'd all was the knight..Whereof he taking oddes, streight bids him dight Himselfe to yeeld his loue. View more context for this quotation
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 94 When..we come to undertake any danger we have this odds by it.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 23 I may draw now, since we have the odds of him.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xvi I am not ignorant of the great Odds that the Bishop had of me, both in Education and Capacity.
1750 J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 23 I have the odds of you, for I have a much worse opinion of myself than you can have.
1861 J. A. Nunes Fast Folks ii. v. 38 Ulysses gains no odds of me! While I can safely boast a right which Homer never gave the sage!
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